Monday, November 26, 2012

Etsy now has international first class mail shipping. I have started adding that to my shop, starting with Canada (doesn't require agricultural inspection for most items), and with small items of which I have some idea what they weigh. I'm going to need some time to add everything, and every location (postal rates are different depending on where things go), and please make sure that you are aware of import duties and taxes that your country will charge to you (not to me, and I have no way of knowing what they will charge, they are up to you to pay).
A treasury from Pamela of the 808Hui:

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

It's that time of the year again, the holidays are upon us and so is the Hilo High School PTSA (annual) Holiday Faire. It's in the cafeteria, 9-3 on Saturday, Dec. 1.

I'll be there with some plants, jewelry and beads and other jewelry making supplies. New this year are some Chinese crystal strands, some pewter spacer beads, lots of new freshwater pearls and some new Swarovski crystal colors. Of course I will also have some velvet seeds, both drilled and not drilled. For plants I'll have some clove seedlings, velvet seed tree seedlings and definitely bell pepper seedlings, probably some tree tomatoes, spider lilies, mondo grass, possibly a small Norfolk Pine or 3. I have dried cloves but I forgot to put them on the list so I don't know whether they'll allow me to sell those there.

Diane from the Lampwork Etc. Etsy Team put this treasury together that fits the subject of this post perfectly:

Thursday, October 18, 2012

I got back from my trip in July as scheduled and first had a bunch of work to catch up with and then the lilikoi season had started while I was gone. I almost missed entering the East Hawaii Cultural Center Trash Art Show for lack of time to create what I had in mind but as my mind goes, while neither plan A nor plan B got done, plan C did get completed in time (good thing that this time at least I had stripped the wire beforehand) and you can currently see a necklace and earrings entitled "Copper Spirals" at the East Hawaii Cultural Center here in Hilo until Oct. 31.
I have a picture of it but that's still in the camera.

To not completely go without pictures, an Etsy treasury I was included in:

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I'm going to be unable to ship between June 15th and July 9th. I may be out of internet contact for several days at a time during this period. All orders received will be shipped in at least approximately the order received, some of that depends on whether they need to go through agriculture inspection or not.